Buffer Access with Incorrect Length Value The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-tools-libs (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-KERNELTOOLSLIBS-19488443
- published2 Sept 2026
- disclosed15 Aug 2026
Introduced: 15 Aug 2026
CVE-2026-72497 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools-libs package and not the kernel-tools-libs package as distributed by RHEL.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/bnxt_re: Add a max slot check for SQ
The variable WQE mode must be validated against the maximum slots supported by HW. The max supported value is 64K. Adding a max and min check and fail if user supplied value is more than the max supported and zero.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2516797
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-72497
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a59d815cbe667929b693b5fa6716a074e6a31c5b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc95931b7e1326dacae547874bf38c092e5960d8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2106c337905d7445d75818e36920b63f9211c584
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4d1c78b56b6abc0dcb6015faaed2cf4d0f2797b